Teenage girls on TV in the mid-1990s

[George 1978]

My sister who liked Paul Young at the time had read the Live Aid TV schedules like a train timetable in order to find out when he was on (which was around 4.30 pm), and I think that was the only act that she was interested in....

[George 1978]

That is a good point - why should I be excluded from watching it just because the stereotype seems that the programme is aimed at girls? I felt as if the one out because I grew up with sisters (even though they were a few years older than myself), and so therefore being neutral wasn't all that straightforward....

[George 1978]

For many reasons I keep assuming that the majority of people on here are the same age as me on here, i.e. born around the latter half of the 1970s if not 1978 itself - I know that our very own Richard for example, was born in the same year as myself, hence our similarly-numbered names on here!
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[George 1978]

The interesting thing is that the Get a Life factor seemed to be in the mid 1990s when Roy Cropper arrived in Coronation Street, but of course, Mr Bean had literally been around since the start of that decade, and I suppose that it is easy to forget that. I can't imagine this sort of thing happening...

[George 1978]

As you may have guessed, my own teenage years had made up the core part of the 1990s; I was unlucky-for-some thirteen in 1991 and eventually reached twenty in 1998, and I have to admit that I used to hate seeing teenage girls who were the same age as myself and were obviously born around the mid to...

[George 1978]

Here's another one: the Hale and Pace "Mr Popular" sketch - involving someone who reads the Daily Star...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmsLVaxyMqU

[George 1978]

I wouldn't even dare mention on a public forum like this about my late father's fashion because he didn't have anything that was fashionable!...

[George 1978]

My signature comes from a punk song - well, I suppose it was regarded as punk at the time...

[George 1978]

My parents had a huge collection of around 100 singles mostly from the 1960s, although ironically, none at all from the Beatles - one would have thought that they would have had one or two of them considering the era they collected them coincided with when they were in the charts....

[George 1978]

As Zabadak mentioned above, the mentioning of backwards messages in songs reminded me of the B-side of Napoleon XIV's They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Ha, and the fact that it is just the A-side played backwards if you know what I mean, and the mirrored writing on the label as well. Both look and...

[George 1978]

Brian Clough was very popular where I lived in the 1980s, but then again, he did manage our local club....

[George 1978]

I think that the interest in Royalty is the fact that in 100 years' time, historians will research the late Queen (editions of The Times and all that), and pupils will learn about her from their History lessons which is important - it is a representation of a "there and then" aspect of life....

[George 1978]

The thing with the Tudor-Pole era episodes was how the female contestants looked and dressed on the show! It looked more exciting than someone from the O'Brien era....

[George 1978]

I found the Ed Tudor-Pole episodes more interesting when I saw them on Challenge.

[George 1978]

It's mostly research rather than memory, but I do personally remember these things back in the day as well. I don't know whether this is nostalgia or what, but I wouldn't mind a few hours of the test card on ITV in the midnight to 6.00 am slot just like the 1970s and 1980s rather than have all this...

[George 1978]

The Carole Hersee test card was certainly seen as recently as the early 2000s with the updated "BBC" and "2" logo on it; possibly during the early hours of Christmas morning one year when I switched over from the end of Midnight Mass on BBC 1 over to BBC 2 when they had finished...

[George 1978]

Mine was like that as well - thank goodness for broadband!...

[George 1978]

Received my Eurovision Song Contest CD in the post today at 12.49 pm BST - has anyone received theirs if they had ordered one this year? I thought that it wouldn't be delivered until early June as it had mentioned on eBay - I have placed it on the shelf between the 2025 Eurovision CD and the That's...

[George 1978]

I went online just a couple of days after my 21st birthday - it was a bit like a present. Did anyone use Dialstart.net as their email provider back in the late 1990s? They seemed to become madasafish.com until they closed in around 2016. I had seen website addresses on TV programmes and adverts from...

[George 1978]

It doesn't really count, but I was one of a few pupils from my school who were "extras" in a "far-away-in-the-background" playground scene for a BBC drama which was filmed on a Tuesday afternoon June 1991 - even our Headteacher was so interested in this, and as a result, he also...